⬠18 billion for education.

The Education Minister tie a billion package - but decided it is not. Only if the Prime Minister and Chancellor on 4 June to agree, the money is for new students and research freely. The finance ministers are trying to slow down.

 

In these difficult times, it is an effort to spend more money for universities and research institutes to obtain. But the Education Minister of the Federation and the Länder have agreed to additional investment in billion-study, research staff and laboratory results, despite record debt and falling tax revenues is no option - when Germany even after the crisis, his position on the world market wants.

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Full auditorium (in Trier): More seats are sorely needed

But the finance ministers in federal and state are already reminding hands. The Higher Education Pact II to create more university places, as well as additional funding for research, despite widespread agreement among science minister is still not dry cloths.

For weeks phoning Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of Education hectically together. A Letter from Werner Gatzer Financial Secretary to his counterpart in the education department, Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, electrified on Wednesday in Berlin is answerable to the Minister of Science. Given yet another short-term risks unabwägbarer warns Gatzer education urged politicians to promise the moderation of new billion dollar expenditure. The federal housekeepers may also link back to cover his colleagues relied countries.

More need to be a great throw

According to the Education Minister to be universities and research by 2015, with additional billions of aid fit for the future are: 6.4 billion euros to 275,000 additional student places allow 1.5 billion euros of additional federal research program in a package insert, 2, 7 billion euros to serve a new edition of the Excellence Initiative for Excellence and Eliteunis.

Another five billion Euros are for the Pact for research and innovation to the research organizations an equal financial resources to guarantee. The announced Federal Education Minister Annette Schavan (CDU) and the Berlin senator education Jürgen Zöllner (SPD) on Wednesday after a special meeting of the Joint Science Conference (GWK) in Berlin. Overall, therefore, 18 billion euros until 2019, also in education and research flow.

GWK-DECISIONS: WHO DOES WHAT FOR WHAT?

Higher IIExzellenzinitiativePakt pact for research

By 2015 to more than 275,000 students
2005 created. The cost of around 6.4 billion euros
want the federal and state share. Compared with the 2007 closed
Higher Education Pact I that had been 91,000 extra places by beginners
2010 provided, the expenditure per student of 22,000 euros to
26,000 euro to be increased. In addition, a research -
Lump sum of around 1.5 billion euros. It aims at projects
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for a better
Equipment at the universities provide. The costs
The federal government alone. Source: Reuters

For the commitments still to 2011
Excellence initiative are ongoing 2.7 billion euros.
The federal government is again three-quarters of the costs, the countries of the rest The funds are again in competition. The first
Excellence initiative, which even from the previous red-green government
started, had a volume of 1.9 billion euros. The goal is
the establishment of an internationally recognized cutting-edge research to
German universities. Planned are three program pillars again with
different axes. In the third program line
concepts for the development of elite universities were awarded prizes. Source: Reuters

The before Bundestagswahl 2005 pact should be continued - also by 2015.
The federal government has proposed that the budgets of the major
Research organizations by at least five percent
increased - even to tariff increases and higher energy costs
offset. The basic funding of the five major
Research organizations - including the Max Planck Society and
DFG - 2008 amounted to around 5.7 billion euros. Source: Reuters

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The education minister at the GWK in
tough negotiations every detail discussed. Compromises must ensure that the special situation of the new countries and also the city-states is taken into account. The Eastern countries take the view there already noticeable decline in birth a part of the training loads of the Western countries. A bonus is to compensate for this city states that they offer far more places than it is given the number of their country's children is deemed necessary.

Nothing is yet signed

The papers are signed. But the conflict between educational and financial side for the next few weeks programmed. It will be mainly on German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) arrive. You must be on 4 June in Berlin, the Prime Minister for the plan to win - and the redemption of the promises require that federal and state half a year ago on the
Education Summit in Dresden gave each other.

The German Rectors' Conference (HRK) has the seriousness of the situation recognized. Remarkable was that HRK President Margret Wintermantel on Wednesday in Berlin to the usual massive additional debt waiver - in the past, even to show good science minister often than not of this world "had. Strongly urged Wintermantel, now not at the expense of teaching and training even at the expense of research to save money.

Almost had closed the day before the principals at their annual meeting in Aachen promised future in the new federal authorization to participate. Future, none of the expensive places in the local numerus clausus subjects more remain unfilled simply because there is no functioning nationwide After consultation procedure.

In doing so, the universities with their own organized chaos approval in the NC subjects since 2004 contributed to the students again and again projected from the mountain baby boom cohorts graduates so far largely a mirage on the horizon remained. While leaving in the last year 19.4 per cent more young people with their school graduation or the certificate of upper secondary education than it did five years ago. Over the same period, however, the number of first by only 2.4 percent.